The amount of adulation doesn't differ much if you go across the sea to China or Korea, but China at least has its own NBA players to adulate. Japan, though, has only one former NBA player - Yuta Tabuse, whose official blog looks considerably better than his game.
In the video below, a couple of things are obvious:
1) Japanese game show audiences relish mounting tension.
2) While I have never seen a Japanese player actually dunk, that doesn't mean there isn't some collective chip on the nation's ego summoning some of its bravest to venture a 30-foot, trampoline-fueled flight across a game show stage for a prize, yes, but - more importantly - validation that the Japanese people need not always look to America for basketball highlights.
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Not only do they like mounting tension, they also love instant replays!
How can you be dogging on Yuta when the guy is shooting 100% from both 3 point range and the free throw line?
1 rebound every 4 minutes of play for a 5' 9" guy is nothing to snort at either!
ahh i guess i was using old stats on that last post. Looks like his numbers in all those areas have dropped as of late. Probably because of everyone making fun of him...
Did you see Yuta's personal website, though? He doesn't carry himself like a man last seen in America averaging averaged 4.5 points, 1.2 rebounds and 2.0 assists. Probably that whole weight of a nation on his shoulders thing.
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